Dig Another Well; A New Beginning
June 26, 2013 Leave a comment
"Lift up your eyes on high and see! Who has created these? He Who brings out their host by number and calls them all by name; through the greatness of His might and because He is strong in power, not one is missing or lacks anything." Isaiah 40:26 AMP
DIGGING ANOTHER WELL
“Water well-a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water”
When your water well is taken away from you, don’t resist, give them your water well and dig another one.
Please read the passage below about Isaac’s ordeal. Pay attention in how he reacted when his water well was taken away from him.
"And the Lord appeared to him and said, Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land of which I will tell you. Now Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of living [spring] water. And the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, The water is ours. And he named the well Esek [contention] because they quarreled with him. Then [his servants] dug another well, and they quarreled over that also; so he named it Sitnah [enmity]. And he moved away from there and dug another well, and for that one they did not quarrel. He named it Rehoboth [room], saying, For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land." (Genesis 26:2, 19-22 AMP)
Today, our life will forever change again. Something happened to one of our water well and we have to find another one. I’ve known this Bible truth that when something unpleasant happens, I will not argue or wrestle my way out to keep it. I will just simply "dig another well".
I WANT TO SEE A MIRACLE
Last week, a coworker of mine asked me about the power of my faith. Is it real? Is it just made up? Is God real? What’s your proof? Who wrote the Bible? Where they got the idea? Where was God before He existed? Who is Jesus? Was His miracle real? For the most part, I failed to answer his inquiry. I could not explain to him my faith. I just told him that I used to be like him "full of questions" about the existence of God but then one day, I came to realize that He is real and out of the blue I started believing in Him.
Later in our conversation, he mentioned that his father in-law is lying in the hospital bed with a breathing apparatus and not moving at all – vegetative state. I quickly realized why he grilled me those questions earlier, he needed a miracle. After work, I went to his father in-law’s ICU room by myself and introduced myself to strangers that "I’m a friend of someone" and I could see in their eyes questions of why I was there. I was not related to them but they welcomed me. I placed my hand over to the man in bed lying lifeless but all his vitals are working. I stared at his still and non-moving eyes for 15 minutes without saying a word. In me was just a prayer, "Lord, show me a miracle".
Nothing happened since then and my faith did not produce anything positive to this family. Yesterday, I received a call that he will be kicked out from the ICU and I don’t have any words to say but just prayers to the heavens. I know that God heard my prayer.
Going back to my topic on "Digging another water well", The blessings in my life is the proof that God existed. I cannot put a scientific evidence of His existence, I just simply believed in my heart that He is there for me. You can argue with me with different reasons that contradicts the existence of God but I know in my heart that He really existed through the things that happened and did not happen.
When you live a life filled with blessings, you really cannot discount the fact that there must be someone behind all these. That is my only proof and nothing else.
Regards to all.
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